験
verification, effect, testing
Readings
On'yomi
- ケン
- ゲン
Kun'yomi
- あかし
- しるし
- ため.す
- ためし
Meaning
験 centers on putting something to the test to confirm its truth or effectiveness: verifying, testing, or seeing the effect of something.
Most common words using 験
20 of 369- 経験けいけんN4
experience
- 体験たいけんN2
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
- 試験しけんN4
examination; exam; test
- 実験じっけんN4
experiment; experimentation
- 受験じゅけんN3
taking an examination (esp. for entrance to a school or university)
- 受験生じゅけんせいN3
student preparing for or taking examinations (usu. entrance exams); test-taker
- 被験者ひけんしゃ
subject (of a medical experiment, etc.); test subject; trial subject; testee
- 実体験じったいけん
real experience; actual observations
- 治験ちけん
clinical trial
- 験げん
omen; fortune
- 試験管しけんかん
test tube
- 試験場しけんじょう
examination hall; examination room
- 霊験れいげん
miraculous efficacy; miracle; miraculous virtue
- 被験ひけん
experimental; trial; test
- リトマス試験紙リトマスしけんし
litmus paper
- 経験者けいけんしゃ
experienced person; person who has had a particular experience
- 核実験かくじっけん
nuclear (bomb) test
- 国家試験こっかしけん
state examination; national examination
- 実験室じっけんしつ
laboratory
- 試験的しけんてき
experimental; provisional
Study
Etymology
験 is the modern simplified form of 驗. The older form combines 馬 (horse) with 僉, which likely contributed the sound and originally related to examining or inspecting horses. The modern right side 㑒 is a simplified version of 僉.
Meaning mnemonic
The left side is a horse 馬, and the right side 㑒 looks like a person with a measuring tool. Imagine testing a horse's strength or verifying its health by putting it through a trial.
Reading mnemonic
For ケン, picture a scientist named Ken conducting an experiment to test the horse's stamina: Ken -> ケン, and he verifies the effect.